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NLS: Ghost Fest Talk: A literary Tour of Scots Scares


By Editor - Posted on 03 April 2009

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12 May 2009 - 7:00pm - 8:00pm
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What influenced great writers like James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson to create tales of the macabre? What has been their modern-day legacy? Dr Penny Fielding, from Edinburgh University's Centre for Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century, sheds some light on Scotland's dark literary past. In partnership with the award-winning Mary King's Ghost Fest.